Pay-for-play costs Sony BMG $10m
Some 45 years after it was banned, Sony-BMG was caught paying payola [i.e. for its music to be played on radio stations]. Apparently buying radio play, even for 'artistes' like J-Lo, is dead cheap. ¶

Stephen Pollard: We need more from the police
"But everything about this incident smells of - at best - incompetence of the most grotesque and tragic kind. For me, the point which needs answering as a matter of urgency is why the police thought it perfectly OK to let a suicide bomber wander around the streets and get on a bus, and that he was only a problem when he got on the underground - with, as they claim to have believed, live explosives." ¶